Robin Bryer, Esq

Career: sr planning asst Hampshire CC 1967-73, ptnr Inland and Waterside Planners 1973-77, ind chartered town planner (one of the first in private practice) assisting landowners, developers, MPs, conservation bodies and govt depts 1977-; award winner: Tomorrow's New Communities Competition 1991, Best Small Project Class Daily Telegraph Individual Home Builder Awards 1997; exhibited in architectural section of RA 1980, guest lectr Hellenic Travellers' Club 1980-96; chm PEST (Tory pressure gp) 1966-68, memb Consultancy Bd RTPI 1980-83; chm Old Dauntseians' Assoc 1985-86; Freeman City of London 1987, Guildsman City Guild of Old Mercers 1988; MRTPI 1973

Books and Publications: Jolie Brise, A Tall Ships Tale (1982, 2 edn 1997), Roving Commissions (ed 1983-86), Hair, Fashion and Fantasy down the Ages (2000, Chinese edn 2003), Jack: A literary biography of John Connell (2007)